Originally Posted by
Nythiz
I dont think SV will get massive changes; blizzard remains convinced that keeping it melee is the best course of action.
I personally will take ranged SV over melee any day of the week, but it's very unlikely that will happen before 10.0, if at all.
As a melee spec it's not horrible, but it could use some changes.
The ones I would love to see are:
- Mongoose Bite baseline
- Wildfire Infusion baseline
- Serpent Sting scaling properly with haste; so it doesn't get reduced with high haste. On live with corruption gear my serpent sting lasts like 4 seconds with haste buffs.
- Base 1 sec GCD like most melee specs, SV just feels bad with 1.5 sec as it's pretty much a GCD locked melee spec.
- 5% parry chance back as melee that all other melee specs have as well.
Other than that the talents need some looking at, but the first two changes in my list above would fix 90% of the issues.
Plus side is that blizzard does not seem done with changing specs, so maybe some SV changes are still in the pipeline.